Here is a sampling of upcoming things to do in the San Gabriel Valley area.
Baseball was in his blood,” said his great-nephew, Ray Mackey III. “He and his siblings grew up playing ball on the sandlots of Luling, dreaming of making it big.” ...
Police will increase their presence across the Capital this weekend as protests in support of and against Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is set to take place on Saturday.
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...
Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
NEW YORK -- Five accomplished Black women in baseball gathered at the Jackie Robinson Museum last week to share stories about their unique career paths that led them to where they are today. The focus ...
Perhaps the most notable such series took place in 1946, when Jackie Robinson's International League champion Montreal Royals defeated the American Association's Louisville Colonels, four games to two ...
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for 18 months in October after admitting to breaching a High Court injunction that barred him from repeating libellous claims about a ...
January 31 is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player who broke the color barrier. The first time he did so was during spring training in Daytona Beach. That stadium is now ...
Robinson wrote on X on Friday that he was sharing “an important life update” and that he and his family were “turning the page.” “Costly litigation and political gamesmanship by my ...